Quote

Faced with the challenge of an endless universe, Man will be forced to mature further, just as the Neanderthal-faced with an entire planet-had no choice but to grow away from the tradition of savagery.

Dean Koontz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Dean Koontz
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: July 9
Author
Novelist
Poet
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Everett
Pennsylvania
Dean Ray Koontz
Aaron Wolfe
Brian Coffey
David Axton
Deanna Dwyer
John Hill
K.R. Dwyer
Leigh Nichols
Anthony North
Owen West
Richard Paige
Away
Choice
Mature
Men
Grow
Forced
Progress
Endless
Challenges
Challenge
Grows
Planet
Neanderthal
Choices
Entire
Neanderthals
Universe
Tradition
Savagery
Science
Planets
Faced

More quotes by Dean Koontz

Image
The only thing we can't buy more of is time. she said. And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.
Dean Koontz
Image
As long as I have laughter, I am not without hope
Dean Koontz
Image
I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.
Dean Koontz
Image
Night has patterns that can be read less by the living than by the dead.
Dean Koontz
Image
The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls
Dean Koontz
Image
The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.
Dean Koontz
Image
The word impossible contains the word possible' What's that-- some Zen thing?' I think Star Trek. Mr. Spock.
Dean Koontz
Image
The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Dean Koontz
Image
Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.
Dean Koontz
Image
Pain is all I know. He murmured. Peace is all I want
Dean Koontz
Image
Some days I'm lucky to squeeze out a page of copy that pleases me, but I get as many as six or seven pages on a very good day the average is probably three pages.
Dean Koontz
Image
Some people think only intellect counts: knowing how to solve problems, knowing how to get by, knowing how to identify an advantage and seize it. But the functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion, and empathy.
Dean Koontz
Image
In this world only the paranoid survive.
Dean Koontz
Image
Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind.
Dean Koontz
Image
No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
Dean Koontz
Image
When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
Dean Koontz
Image
Readers will stay with an author, no matter what the variations in style and genre, as long as they get that sense of story, of character, of empathetic involvement.
Dean Koontz
Image
I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.
Dean Koontz
Image
It was one of those rare times when remembering the dead was more inmportant than tending to the needs of the living.
Dean Koontz
Image
A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in.
Dean Koontz